So I mostly don't notice my luteal phase when lifting until we get to bench press when SUDDENLY I am very aware of where I am in my menstrual cycle because I confidently go to bench a weight that was fine 2 weeks ago and then it just sits an inch above my boobs until someone does a rescue.
December 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So I mostly don't notice my luteal phase when lifting until we get to bench press when SUDDENLY I am very aware of where I am in my menstrual cycle because I confidently go to bench a weight that was fine 2 weeks ago and then it just sits an inch above my boobs until someone does a rescue.
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Beginning this fall, Yonsei University (2nd highest-ranked school in Korea) Graduate School will waive tuition for all international students
Yonsei University to give scholarship to all international grad students
Yonsei University will introduce flat-rate scholarships for all international graduate students starting in the second semester of the 2025 academic year.
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Beginning this fall, Yonsei University (2nd highest-ranked school in Korea) Graduate School will waive tuition for all international students
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Global Korea Scholarship offering funded Korean-language training and tuition support for undergrad and grad degrees in Korea www.niied.go.kr/user/nd35203...
GKS Degree Program | NIIED
www.niied.go.kr
July 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Global Korea Scholarship offering funded Korean-language training and tuition support for undergrad and grad degrees in Korea www.niied.go.kr/user/nd35203...
Rehabbing my arm is the slowest most annoying thing but today I got to stick plates back on the bar for the first time since the spring 🥳
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Rehabbing my arm is the slowest most annoying thing but today I got to stick plates back on the bar for the first time since the spring 🥳
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A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.
High volume light weight is kicking my butt right now I cannae lie. 3 sets of 10x80kg deadlifts basically feels like cardio.
June 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
High volume light weight is kicking my butt right now I cannae lie. 3 sets of 10x80kg deadlifts basically feels like cardio.
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I've been interviewed many times but am kind of amazed at this one, which manages to understand exactly what I am trying to do.
"We do have a very strong tradition of political dissent. The feminists keep fighting and the queer rights activists keep fighting and we all keep fighting."
"We do have a very strong tradition of political dissent. The feminists keep fighting and the queer rights activists keep fighting and we all keep fighting."
Translating Korea: The Importance of Anton Hur
The translator is among the five judges who have selected Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi’s 'Heart Lamp' for the International Booker Prize. The time is ripe to observe how his public persona contribut...
thewire.in
June 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I've been interviewed many times but am kind of amazed at this one, which manages to understand exactly what I am trying to do.
"We do have a very strong tradition of political dissent. The feminists keep fighting and the queer rights activists keep fighting and we all keep fighting."
"We do have a very strong tradition of political dissent. The feminists keep fighting and the queer rights activists keep fighting and we all keep fighting."
The really annoying thing about my fancy gym is that it has a lot of beautiful men hogging equipment and admiring themselves
June 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The really annoying thing about my fancy gym is that it has a lot of beautiful men hogging equipment and admiring themselves
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This takes 5 minutes. As a cis bisexual woman, I feel personally affected by this attack on trans people because I am frightened for people I love, and for my own rights when the people who did this smell blood in the water.
We've made it easy to respond to tell the EHRC what you think of its wicked attempt to humiliate trans people.
Please use, share in your networks, and allow us to contact you in the future. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
Please use, share in your networks, and allow us to contact you in the future. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
How to respond to the EHRC consultation
Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...
goodlaw.social
June 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This takes 5 minutes. As a cis bisexual woman, I feel personally affected by this attack on trans people because I am frightened for people I love, and for my own rights when the people who did this smell blood in the water.
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BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling - The National
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
Nicola Sturgeon breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling
NICOLA Sturgeon has broken her silence on the Supreme Court judgement on the definition of a woman.
www.thenational.scot
May 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling - The National
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
I've had 3 weeks off from strength training (a combo of a cold and enjoying running) and I'm 4 days away from getting my period and I am WEAK.
May 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I've had 3 weeks off from strength training (a combo of a cold and enjoying running) and I'm 4 days away from getting my period and I am WEAK.
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🏳️⚧️ NEW 🏳️⚧️
We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🏳️⚧️ NEW 🏳️⚧️
We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme
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URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email.
This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT!
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT!
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
URGENT ACTION: Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC's proposals to impose draconian bans on trans people from single-sex spaces.
The trans community is facing a major crisis in the UK after the Supreme Court ruled last week that for the purposes of The Equality Act 2010 sex should be classified as biological (i.e. as recorded a...
www.translegalproject.org
April 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email.
This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT!
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT!
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
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On top of this - if you are a teacher or a parent you need to *urgently* contact your schools and let them know you will not put up with the forced detransitioning or exclusion of trans students from school.
That is a major threat the EHRC has directed at young trans people.
That is a major threat the EHRC has directed at young trans people.
Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law.
Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram.
Speak to your unions and staff networks at work
Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram.
Speak to your unions and staff networks at work
April 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
On top of this - if you are a teacher or a parent you need to *urgently* contact your schools and let them know you will not put up with the forced detransitioning or exclusion of trans students from school.
That is a major threat the EHRC has directed at young trans people.
That is a major threat the EHRC has directed at young trans people.
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Expect me to just keep resharing this as a reply to conversation about boycotts, shaming around not boycotting or not boycotting "enough" or "correctly," and various other wank. You should absolutely explore doing what you can do. But that is an INDIVIDUAL calculation.
Over on Whatever today, I've written a longish piece on billionaires and boycotts, how boycotts are effective (and are not), what to do when you don't feel you can boycott, and what to say when someone is telling you that you're not doing it right:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/t...
The Billionaire Boycott Conundrum
Over on Bluesky, where I spend quite a lot of time these days, because it’s an instance of social media not owned by a billionaire and/or ruled by algorithms intended to push vaguely-to-expli…
whatever.scalzi.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Expect me to just keep resharing this as a reply to conversation about boycotts, shaming around not boycotting or not boycotting "enough" or "correctly," and various other wank. You should absolutely explore doing what you can do. But that is an INDIVIDUAL calculation.
I've been playing Ori and the Blind Forest on my Switch and it's great except I've been stuck for a week trying to jump up this tree with a hostile slime at the top of it
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I've been playing Ori and the Blind Forest on my Switch and it's great except I've been stuck for a week trying to jump up this tree with a hostile slime at the top of it
I think one of the things I find interesting about loving the gym and doing it with a goal to look like Absolute Unit (as the kids say) is that a few of my friends or compadres seem to feel fine being snotty about it, never TO me but around me.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I think one of the things I find interesting about loving the gym and doing it with a goal to look like Absolute Unit (as the kids say) is that a few of my friends or compadres seem to feel fine being snotty about it, never TO me but around me.
Guys is there a new bad thing Jeff Bezos has done that means you're all leaving Facebook and Instagram for BlueSky?
January 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Guys is there a new bad thing Jeff Bezos has done that means you're all leaving Facebook and Instagram for BlueSky?
My obsessive training of shoulders and biceps in 2024 is really paying dividends this year in terms of acquiring a distinctly fridge like shoulder line
January 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My obsessive training of shoulders and biceps in 2024 is really paying dividends this year in terms of acquiring a distinctly fridge like shoulder line
I never thought I'd love training quads but seeing the definition come in is JOYOUS. They're like the biceps of my legs.
January 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I never thought I'd love training quads but seeing the definition come in is JOYOUS. They're like the biceps of my legs.
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2025 is a really good year because not only is it square (45*45) but it folds up really tiny so you can fit it in your pocket when you need to (3*3*3*3*5*5)
Well done, 2025. Good work
Well done, 2025. Good work
January 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
2025 is a really good year because not only is it square (45*45) but it folds up really tiny so you can fit it in your pocket when you need to (3*3*3*3*5*5)
Well done, 2025. Good work
Well done, 2025. Good work
Happy new year! I ate too much cheese and dark chocolate cherries and I feel quite sick; messaged my brother, who has also eaten too much cheese and feels a bit sick. Oh, to see out every year in such abundance.
January 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Happy new year! I ate too much cheese and dark chocolate cherries and I feel quite sick; messaged my brother, who has also eaten too much cheese and feels a bit sick. Oh, to see out every year in such abundance.
"Ahhh weightlifting keeps you young" I think smugly to myself. And then I don't stretch after training legs and today I'm moving like a 95 year old grandma.
December 29, 2024 at 12:26 PM
"Ahhh weightlifting keeps you young" I think smugly to myself. And then I don't stretch after training legs and today I'm moving like a 95 year old grandma.
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If you loved I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI (or if you just love a writer/translator joint interview), make sure to drop what you're doing and watch this!
Baek Sehee, the author of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI, and I did an interview together 💜
Super rare—Sehee almost never does interviews and this was her first international appearance despite having sold 10 million copies worldwide (that’s not an exaggeration!).
Super rare—Sehee almost never does interviews and this was her first international appearance despite having sold 10 million copies worldwide (that’s not an exaggeration!).
Talking tteokbokki and therapy with Baek Se-hee and BTS translator Anton Hur
YouTube video by The Straits Times
youtu.be
December 17, 2024 at 7:19 PM
If you loved I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI (or if you just love a writer/translator joint interview), make sure to drop what you're doing and watch this!
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I think I've told this story before but in the penpals page of Metal Maniacs long ago there was an appeal for mail that said words to the effect of "the most metal among you die a poser if you don't support your brothers in prison." it stuck with me. a little goes a long way.
I just donated something. Please do the same if you're able www.thecommissaryfund.org/donate-now
Donate Now | The Commissary Fund
Your donation is extremely important because it helps The Commissary Fund (TCF) provide food, health products, envelopes, stamps, and many other items to incarcerated individuals. TCF helps to support...
www.thecommissaryfund.org
December 21, 2024 at 7:47 PM
I think I've told this story before but in the penpals page of Metal Maniacs long ago there was an appeal for mail that said words to the effect of "the most metal among you die a poser if you don't support your brothers in prison." it stuck with me. a little goes a long way.